Hi, On Fri, Sep 29, Michael Ju. Tokarev wrote: > Ok. My work on pam_unix is in a stalled state now... > I should finish it sometime (not so many left to do). > But what interesting (and caused me to write this) - > I found a pam_unix2 module by Thorsten Kukuk -- this > one I was unable to find for a long time. Oha, it is > on kernel.org/.../NIS+/ directory! Complete url is: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/NIS+/pam_unix2.tar.gz The correct URL is: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/kukuk/people/pam There are newer versions available, I forgot the files on ftp.kernel.org. > The question. May _this_ Thorsten's module be used in > linux-pam in place of it's current pam_unix? > I know that this question is mostly for Thorsten. I have no problems if pam_unix2 will replace pam_unix in linux-pam. But the big problem I see is, that pam_unix2 depends heavy on glibc >= 2.1.x. This is the reason why I never made the try to get it into the linux-pam package. > At least I was not able to find any annoncements here > (and even any references) to this module. I posted in vor about 1,5 years when the first version was ready. > Module probably should be changed a bit in respect of > handling new passwords (bigcrypt issues, other hashes > etc as discussed on this list), but other things are in > place. (Maybe even made nis+ support optional, especially > keyserver notifications). pam_unix2 should work with HP-UX password aging, bigcrypt, md5 hashes and all the other nice things. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse, cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.
